Re: [Pysparse-developers] Python 2.5 and memory management

[Daniel W. <dan...@gm...>]

On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 8:18 AM, Adam C Powell IV <haz...@de...> wrote:

>  > I do have one related question for you. How does one test deb packages without a
>  > clean system or root access? There doesn't seem to be an obvious way unpack and
>  > install locally using apt-get. Any clues?
>
>  A .deb package is an ar archive with a tarball of package files, a
>  tarball of control files, and a brief version file.  You can use "ar x
>  package.deb" which will give you these three, and then unpack the
>  package files and try to use them.  But you don't get the
>  system-integrating scripts etc.
>
>  As far as I know there's no good way to unpack and use a .deb in one's
>  home directory.
>
>  Do you have sufficient access to make a chroot environment?

Yes I do. I haven't tried it though. It may be the correct way to
create a sandbox for testing
packaging. I'll try it out and let you know. Thanks!

-- 
Daniel Wheeler